
The Nöck
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Å. Eskil Avenstrup
Icelandic Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
Axel Juncker Publishing, Berlin
1919
Iceland
The Nöck: water spirit, seduction, danger, music, death, enchantment
Public Domain (copyright expired)
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The Nöck
The farmers of the Sprengel should be fenced in the fencing of the church Bright the bard in FLJOT. Except for an old man who is somewhat malicious and unable to It was almost midday, but the old man did not come, and the others found that he was taking a long time to arrive. Around noon But they finally saw him coming, a gray horse behind them When the old man came, he was insulted by the Early received received because he came to work so late for him as well as the others came up; only asked what he had to do; and chance would have it that he Those in the squad had to go, the peat pieces and clay lumps had to be led from which the fencing are listed Should, and with that the old one was completely satisfied.
The grey was very vicious and bad towards the other horses, bit and hit them and tore himself away from them, and the end of the song was that none of the other horses could defend themselves against him. People who owned it considered this a great loss, and they agreed to impose even greater burdens on him, but that helped little. It carried its double load with the same ease, with who had borne its former burdens, and it heard with its bad habits until it had chased away all the other horses and was left alone.
Then the old man took the horse and loaded an equally heavy burden onto the Back, as previously given to all horses together and then walked back and forth with the horse, which was now very calm In this way he brought everything that was needed to repair the Control was used. he took the bridle off the horse and hit it on the loins, by going to go. kicked out from behind and hit the piece of the fencing, which had been carried out during the day, thereby a large piece of the fence, and how often you later filled the hole, but it never really held, which is why a fence door was attached to the church.
But the last thing that was seen of the horse’s activities was that it made a jump as soon as it felt free, and it did not stop until it was submerged in Lake Holte.
And then everyone realized that it had been Nöck.
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